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The responsibility of paying tuition on time certainly lies on the student. However, how many colleges ask themselves: “How do we create a culture that fosters timely tuition payments?” Creating an environment that encourages and enables students to pay on time is a crucial step colleges are beginning to take. So, how can your business […]

What tuition payment options do you offer your international students? Most likely one of your front office goals is to make tuition payments hassle-free for your students. However, international students can often fall through the cracks when it comes to tuition payment software. Most schools choose to receive international payments via wire transfers. While this

How much does the cost of paper checks affect your school? On the surface, checks seem like a mild inconvenience at worst. Even though they can be delayed in the mail or misplaced once they are in your office, there are no “fees.” Therefore, paper checks don’t cost your school anything… right? However, the first

.As prospective students and parents consider your school, you may not have thought about how your tuition payment process might affect enrollment and retention. In today’s busy world, no one has the time to wait in line to pay tuition at the registrar’s office each semester. However, a complicated and painful online process isn’t much

It’s not shocking news that there is an increasing need for schools to provide digital, mobile, and contactless payment options to their students. Generation Z (born between 1996 -2012) now makes up a large percentage of college students. This younger generation is much more comfortable with financial technology. Tapping their credit card for a contactless

Let’s take about tuition bills. Do your invoices get paid, or do you struggle with late payments and delinquent accounts? While you can’t change the financial habits of your students and their families, you can build a better invoice to encourage on-time payments. 1.) Provide options to Pay – Is mailing a check or stopping

It’s that time of the year when donors make their year-end gifts. Is your school’s website ready to handle them? To optimize your website’s donation page for easy, feel-good giving, we’ve put together our favorite tips: Use Fundraising Software – Sure, a link to PayPal or an address for mailing a check will get the

It’s the million dollar question… how to improve your school’s fundraising. Yes, fundraising can be tricky! But we know it’s rewarding to see how much a successful fundraising campaign has helped your students and school. Whether you are selling tickets to a gala or rolling out a pledge drive, here are our favorite tips to

In today’s technological environment, payments made through the click of a mouse or the tap or a smartphone are becoming the norm. Why not offer donors this convenience for online giving? Can adding – or upgrading – an online giving system benefit your donors and increase overall donations? Absolutely! 1.) Convenience for Donors – Donors can

Can you picture a cashless campus? Start by eliminating exact change and printed paper receipts. Cash is no longer the preferred means of payment for this generation of students. Now, cashless transactions are taking the form of debit/credit cards, and student IDs with reloadable funds. Furthermore, the future of campus payments appears to be NFC-enabled